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Final Draft Solutions

Final Draft 9/8: How to create a title page

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The title page of a Final Draft document contains information of the Title, Author, Copyright and at times the cast, scene & set info. Its advisable to fine tune it to ones requirement to give your document a finished look

Here is how to modify the Title Page in Final Draft 8/9:

  1. Open the title page in the following way:
    • in Final Draft 9 for windows: click on Title Page icon in the Ribbon
    • in Final Draft 9 for Mac or Final Draft 8: goto the Toolbar and choose Document > Title Page.
  2. Type the information over the existing sample text.
  3. 3. Go to File > Close.
  4. 4. Once back at your script, simply save it (File > Save) and your title page is saved with the script.

 

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Device Hardware Linux Open Source Solutions Ubuntu

Fixing USB Keyboard & Mouse Boot Problems in Ubuntu

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USB Cables (Photo credit: incurable_hippie)

Sometimes on startup, Ubuntu does not recognize my USB Keyboard & Mouse. This problem is frustrating as Windows seems to recognize them.

It took me a while to recognize the root of the problem was with the USB 3.0 ports on the Motherboard. By moving the usb connections to the USB 2.0 ports on the motherboard this problem was solved.

Problem: USB Keyboard and Mouse dont work on boot up.
Solution: Move the connectors to the devices from a standard USB 3.0 port to standard USB 2.0 port(check with your motherboard manual for specifics)

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Solutions Windows

Protect your Thumb Drive from Viruses using a Simple Hack



One of the easiest ways for getting your system infected with viruses is by using infected thumbdrives.  Most viruses create a startup file with the name “autorun.inf” and in the file point to the location of the virus(within the drive) to be run automatically when the thumb drive is detected.

Most Antivirus programs detect these viruses but there is a simple hack that can be used to prevent these Autorun viruses from infecting your drive.

All you need to do is:

  1. Delete the “autorun.inf” file in the root folder of your thumb drive(if the file exists)
  2. Create a new folder with the name” autorun.inf” in the root folder of the thumb drive

How does this work?
Well most viruses create the autorun.inf file when the thumb drive is inserted, by creating a folder with the same name the virus cannot create the file. Also since its a folder its not straightforward to delete and replace it(thank you Fat32 filesystem)

Ps: This hack works with most common viruses but its still recomended that you have an updated antivirus program to faithfully protect your system against virus attacks.

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Download Online Videos using ClipGrab

Clipgrab is an program that downloads videos from popular online video sites like youtube, vimeo ect and saves the video in the format of your choice. The application is very straight forward to use and provides a good set of options that make it easy for the user to customize their download.

Clipgrab requires the user to simply type in the url of the video. This can be copied from the web browser. Once done, Clipgrab gives the details of the video including the different sizes its available for download and the different formats it can be converted to. Hit the “Grab this Clip!” option to download the video.


Clipgrab also monitors your clipboard to pick up urls when ever they are copied. Then it throws a notification asking you if you want to download the clip.

Clipgrab is available for Linux, Windows and Mac and can be downloaded from here: http://clipgrab.de/start_en.html

For ubuntu systems you can use the PPA repository to download Clipgrab:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install clipgrab

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Linux Solutions Ubuntu

Clean up unnecessary files using KleanSweep

KleanSweep is a wonderful application to help you clean up the unnecessary files from your computer. KleanSweep searches and finds Empty files and directories, Broken Symlinks, Backup files, Orphaned Files, Dead menu entries, Obsolete thumbnails and Duplicated files.

Using KleanSweep is as straight forward as choosing what you are searching for and selecting the directory to search. The files that match your criteria are searched and listed for you to remove from your system.

Other similar project include FDupes and FSlint for Linux & Duplicate File Finder (DupFiles) for Windows